Xml Serialization vs. “True” and “False”

Question

I\'m having an issue with deserializing an XML file with boolean values. The source XML files I\'m deserializing were created from a VB6 app, where all boolean values are c

Answer 1

I have an xml with many booleans and I didn't want to end up having so many duplicate boolean properties, so I tried a different approach of providing a custom xml reader to do the work:

public class MyXmlReader : XmlTextReader
{
    public MyXmlReader(TextReader reader) : base(reader) { }
    public override string ReadElementString()
    {
        var text = base.ReadElementString();

        // bool TryParse accepts case-insensitive 'true' and 'false'
        if (bool.TryParse(text, out bool result))
        {
            text = XmlConvert.ToString(result);
        }

        return text;
    }
}

and use with:

using (var sr = new StringReader(text))
using (var r = new MyXmlReader(sr))
{
    var result = serializer.Deserialize(r);
}